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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

127

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-01-22 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Achim, Germany

Also Known As

Heinz Emigholz

Biography

Born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, Heinz Emigholz trained first as a draftsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg. He began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer and producer in Germany and the USA. In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series The Basis of Make-Up . He looks back on numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures and publications. In 1984 he started his film series Photography and beyond. He has held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1993 to 2013, and co-founded the Institute for Time-based Media and the program Art and Media, there. Since 2012 member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2003 Filmgalerie 451 started an edition of all his films on DVD. Publications a.o.: Krieg der Augen, Kreuz der Sinne (War of Eyes, Cross of Senses), Seit Freud gesagt hat, der Künstler heile seine Neurose selbst, heilen die Künstler ihre Neurosen selbst (Since Freud Said That the Artist Heals His Neuroses Himself, Artists Have Been Healing Their Neuroses Themselves), Normalsatz – Siebzehn Filme (Ordinary Sentence – Seventeen Films) and Das schwarze Schamquadrat (The Black Sqare of Shame) (all four books at Verlag Martin Schmitz); Die Basis des Make-Up (I) and (II), Der Begnadete Meier (Grace Jones), Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie (Little Encyclopaedia of Photography) and Die Basis des Make-Up (III) (in Die Republik No. 68-71, 76-78, 89-91, 94-97 and 123-125); Sense of Architecture with more than 600 photographs.

Known For

Acting

Stalingrad

1993

Stalingrad

as

Edgar Emigholz

Brother of Sleep

1995

Brother of Sleep

as

Haintz

Macumba

1982

Macumba

as

Vinzenz Nola

Committed

1984

Committed

as

Dr. Kraus

Execution: A Story of Mary

1979

Execution: A Story of Mary

as

Narrator (voice)

Saturn Returns

2009

Saturn Returns

as

Edgar

Die blaue Distanz

1983

Die blaue Distanz

as

Voice at telephone

Bartleby

1976

Bartleby

as

Production

Crew

Directing